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Southwark Crown Court

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Southwark Crown Court
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Southwark Crown Court
LocationEnglish Grounds, London
Coordinates51°30′20″N 0°04′56″W / 51.5056°N 0.0823°W / 51.5056; -0.0823Coordinates: 51°30′20″N 0°04′56″W / 51.5056°N 0.0823°W / 51.5056; -0.0823
Built1983
ArchitectProperty Services Agency
Architectural style(s)Modern style
Southwark Crown Court is located in Greater London
Southwark Crown Court
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The Crown Court at Southwark, commonly but inaccurately called Southwark Crown Court, is a Crown Court venue which deals with criminal cases at 1 English Grounds (off Battlebridge Lane) on the South Bank of the River Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge in London. It operates within the South Eastern Region of His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service.[1]

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Tower Bridge

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His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service

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History

Until the 1980s, the principal criminal court for south London was the Middlesex Guildhall in Parliament Square.[2][3] However, as the number of criminal cases in south London grew, it became necessary to commission a dedicated courthouse for south London. The site selected, on the south bank of the River Thames, had been occupied by a large warehouse known as "Willson's Wharf",[4] which was badly damaged in a fire in August 1971.[5] The warehouse was demolished and the empty site was acquired by the Lord Chancellor's Department at a cost of £2 million.[6]

The new building was designed by the Property Services Agency[7] in the modern style, built in yellow brick at a cost of £12.6 million,[8] and was opened in 1983.[9] The design involved a broadly symmetrical three-storey main frontage facing south onto English Grounds. It featured a long flat portico which was projected forward and supported by brick columns; it was fenestrated by small square casement windows on the ground floor and by rectangular casement windows on the first and second floors, and there was an additional, taller block behind the main frontage. A Royal coat of arms was mounted on the left hand side of the main frontage at first floor level. Internally, the building was laid out to accommodate 15 courtrooms, making it the fourth largest court centre in the country and the main serious fraud centre for the area.[3]

Notable cases have included the trial and conviction of the publicist, Max Clifford, in April 2014, for indecent assault,[10] the trial and conviction of the entertainer, Rolf Harris, in June 2014, for indecent assault,[11] the trial and conviction of the disc jockey, Dave Lee Travis, in September 2014, for indecent assault,[12] and the trial and conviction of the tennis player, Boris Becker, in April 2022, for breaches of the Insolvency Act.[13]

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Property Services Agency

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Modern architecture

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Rolf Harris

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Dave Lee Travis

Dave Lee Travis

David Patrick Griffin, known professionally as Dave Lee Travis, is an English disc jockey, radio presenter and television presenter.

Boris Becker

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Boris Franz Becker is a German former world No. 1 tennis player. Becker is the youngest ever winner of the gentlemen's singles Wimbledon Championships title at the age of 17 in 1985. Becker is regarded as one of the greatest Tennis players of all time and was featured in the list of Tennis magazine's 40 greatest players on its 40th anniversary in 2006. He won 64 titles overall including an Olympic gold medal. Becker won 49 singles and 15 doubles titles including six Grand Slam singles titles: three Wimbledon Championships, two Australian Opens and one US Open, 13 Masters titles, three year-end championships and leading Germany to back-to-back championship wins in Davis Cup 1988 and 1989.

Insolvency Act 1986

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Source: "Southwark Crown Court", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 19th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwark_Crown_Court.

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References
  1. ^ "HMCS Framework Document" (PDF). HMCS. April 2008. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2008. Retrieved 16 October 2008.
  2. ^ "A visit to Britain's newest and highest court – the Supreme Court". The Kensington Society. 9 May 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Southwark Crown Court". london-se1.co.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Ordnance Survey Map". 1971. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  5. ^ "LFB150 – 45th anniversary of Wilson's Wharf fire of 1971". London Fire Brigade. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  6. ^ Rock, Paul (2019). The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales. Vol. 2. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-0429892189.
  7. ^ Construction. Department of the Environment. 1979. p. 16.
  8. ^ "Capital Building Programme". Hansard. 26 January 1996. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  9. ^ Mulcahy, Linda; Rowden, Emma (2019). The Democratic Courthouse: A Modern History of Design, Due Process and Dignity. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-0429558689.
  10. ^ Halliday, Josh (28 April 2014). "Max Clifford found guilty of indecently assaulting teenage girls". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  11. ^ "Rolf Harris guilty of indecent assault". RTÉ News. 30 June 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  12. ^ "Dave Lee Travis found guilty of indecent assault". BBC News. 23 September 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  13. ^ Hill, Amelia (8 April 2022). "Boris Becker found guilty of four charges under Insolvency Act". the Guardian. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
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